He raped and killed her 48 years ago. A new DNA test reveals the criminal

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In 1975, Britain witnessed one of the most heinous crimes in which a 15-year-old teenager was victimized, raped and then killed in an extremely horrific way, but the most dangerous thing at the time was that the suspect escaped punishment, due to lack of evidence.

Now, after 48 years have passed, the British authorities have been able to find conclusive evidence that the suspect is the killer, and a court in the British capital, Friday, sentenced him to 25 years in prison after a retrial.

And the British “Sky News” network reported that the “Old Bailey” court in London sentenced Dennis McGrory to life imprisonment, with a minimum sentence of 25 years, after being convicted of the rape and murder of teenager Jacqueline Montgomery.

The court ruling came after McGrory was convicted of the crime, based on a new DNA test that found conclusive evidence that he was the perpetrator.

McGrory, who is now in his mid-seventies, will spend at least 25 years and 126 days in prison, and is likely to die in prison, according to Sky News Arabia.

McGrory was 28 at the time of the crime and was "drunk and violent" when he raped and killed the teenager at her home in Islington, north London, according to the court.

It is believed that he attacked the teenager to try to force her to find the address of her aunt, who was then his estranged partner;

Where, after committing the crime, the teenage father found his daughter's lifeless body.

The teenager was raped and stabbed in the back, heart and diaphragm, and to top it all off, the killer brought an iron rope and wrapped it around her neck and suffocated her with it.

In pronouncing the verdict, the judge said that the criminal committed his crime under the influence of alcohol and motivated by anger and lust.

“There was tremendous suffering before death,” the judge added, describing those moments before death as “a horrific, violent and continuous ordeal.”

The judge asked, "How can any man cause such sexual and physical harm to a 15-year-old child, who has not been harmed?"

Despite the conclusive evidence presented by the court, the criminal did not show any "a shred of remorse" or "sympathy" for the victim and her family in court, and continued to deny the crime.

In 1975, at the time of the crime, the judge closed the case on the grounds that the evidence was insufficient and did not charge the suspect, but the authorities at that time kept vaginal swabs from the victim's body.

Decades later, these swabs were examined through new technology, which showed that there was a one-in-a-billion match between the killer's DNA and the preserved swabs.

Accordingly, the suspect was rearrested and put on trial again, and conviction by the jury took only 3 hours.

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